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apprentice
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:13 pm
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what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use
most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
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Regards,
Paweł
Warsaw, Poland
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:22 pm
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"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use
most often?
out of the blue (with the or without?)
definitely with "the". |
he went white as a sheet or red as a beetroot
yellow or yellow-bellied, meaning cowardly
green, meaning young, inexperienced
green, meaning jealous or envious
purple prose - rather florid, wordy or over the top
he ate peeled an orange and ate it slowly 
I've got the blues or I'm feeling blue.
red tape - bureaucracy
red letter day - a special day |
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:19 am
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On Monday, in article <3lpn70F13k3mhU1@individual.net>
einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de "Einde O'Callaghan"
wrote:
| Quote: | Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for
balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".
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I'll have some of what you're drinking, Einde, please!
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"I don't think you're in the top class when it comes to thinking
- I suspect I could wade through the depths of your mind and not
wet my ankles." Peter Thomas, in <news:uk.telecom> 24-Jul-2005
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:44 am
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apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use
most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
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Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for
balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
| Quote: | deep blue sea
....
Regards,
Paweł
Warsaw, Poland
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Jim
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:25 am
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apprentice wrote...
| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use
most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
.....
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these spring immediately to mind...
feeling blue, 'the blues'
pull a whitey
have an orange
on the green
a bit green
in the black/red |
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John Hall
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:45 am
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In article <cdPJe.26353$Fx3.18119@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
Jim <me@privacy.net> writes:
| Quote: | these spring immediately to mind...
feeling blue, 'the blues'
pull a whitey
have an orange
on the green
a bit green
in the black/red
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I'm not sure whether "have an orange" or "on the green" count, since
they refer to objects rather than to colours. (Admittedly the objects in
question are named after their colours.)
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John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
Sir Josiah Stamp, a former president of the Bank of England |
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:09 pm
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
| Quote: | On Monday, in article <3lpn70F13k3mhU1@individual.net
einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de "Einde O'Callaghan"
wrote:
Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for
balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'll have some of what you're drinking, Einde, please!
Unfortunately I was stone cold sober. It comes from typing too fast and |
hitting the send button before you reread the text. :-(
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:00 pm
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"apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use
most often?
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To scream blue murder (to make a big fuss)
To turn the air blue, or the air turned blue (with oaths, sometimes purple)
A red herring, which is a diversion, particularly a misleading one.
Blue sky thinking (yuk).
Red lorry, yellow lorry or red leather, yellow leather (tongue twister).
Red hot, white hot.
Black body (radiation, not skin colour).
Black hole of Calcutta.
Black mark (a stain, either on a garment or on one's character)
Go for gold (the centre of an archery target). |
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:35 pm
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Nick Wagg wrote:
| Quote: | "apprentice" <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in message
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what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use
most often?
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| Quote: | Go for gold (the centre of an archery target).
I thought this had more to do with attempting to win a gold medal. IIRC |
the centre of an archery target is black.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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Nick Wagg
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:25 pm
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"Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Nick Wagg wrote:
Go for gold (the centre of an archery target).
I thought this had more to do with attempting to win a gold medal. IIRC
the centre of an archery target is black.
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Not being an archer I was quite prepared to believe that I was
wrong but a quick Google for archery targets shows them all with
yellow (known as gold) centre, unless there is a tiny black dot at
the centre which isn't showing up.
It may indeed refer to the gold medal but I had always heard
that it referred to archery - no references to hand. |
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apprentice
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:42 pm
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definitely black, you are right. My mistake
Pawel
Uzytkownik "Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> napisal
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| Quote: | apprentice wrote:
what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for
balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
deep blue sea
....
Regards,
Paweł
Warsaw, Poland
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apprentice
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:43 pm
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What do they mean?
Pawel
Uzytkownik "Jim" <me@privacy.net> napisal w wiadomosci
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| Quote: | apprentice wrote...
what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
.....
these spring immediately to mind...
feeling blue, 'the blues'
pull a whitey
have an orange
on the green
a bit green
in the black/red
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Jim
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:05 pm
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apprentice wrote...
| Quote: | What do they mean?
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They are all on Google
| Quote: | Uzytkownik "Jim" <me@privacy.net> napisal w wiadomosci
news:cdPJe.26353$Fx3.18119@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
apprentice wrote...
what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
.....
these spring immediately to mind...
feeling blue, 'the blues'
pull a whitey
have an orange
on the green
a bit green
in the black/red |
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:43 pm
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At 10:25:09 on Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Nick Wagg <naw@transcendata.com> wrote
in <dd9spn$ofu$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>:
| Quote: | "Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> wrote in message
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Nick Wagg wrote:
Go for gold (the centre of an archery target).
I thought this had more to do with attempting to win a gold medal. IIRC
the centre of an archery target is black.
Not being an archer I was quite prepared to believe that I was
wrong but a quick Google for archery targets shows them all with
yellow (known as gold) centre, unless there is a tiny black dot at
the centre which isn't showing up.
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There is a tiny black cross in the centre of the gold which you can't
see unless you're really, really close.
I don't know whether "going for gold" has an archery connection, but
"playing fast and loose" most certainly has. "Fast" is the cry to tell
everyone to stop shooting instantly (e.g. a dog has run onto the field)
and "loose" is the cry to let everyone start shooting again. No doubt
the same cries were used in battle.
(I was seriously involved in archery for several years in the 70s.)
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:40 pm
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apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use
most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
....
Regards,
Paweł
Warsaw, Poland
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"To see red", meaning to become angry.
Roger |
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